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Ancient Sparta focused more on military achievements and ancient Athens thought more of academic knowledge. Athens were a democracy and Sparta was an oligarchy
cause they both are ran by the military The previous answer can be embellished a bit. Sparta was governed by an Oligarchy. In today's North Korea, which claims to be a communist country, it has been ruled by a family run oligarchy just as Sparta was an oligarchy. Sparta, however, may not have been "family " driven as North Korea is.
most of the greek city-states practiced oligarchy, including sparta and athens.
The name for a slave in ancient Sparta was "Helot", meaning "imperior" in Greek.
Sparta's government was an oligarchy. An oligarchy is where a few citizens have a say in the government.